even so. there's no right to reach a mass audience conferred by the freedom of speech. doing something that results in getting kicked off facebook is not a loss of freedom of speech.
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If you ban someone from TV, radio, print and newspapers but say 'you're free to make a speech in the street', has your freedom of speech not been affected?
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Replying to @benedictevans
For most of human history people couldn’t get themselves into TV, radio, print, or newspapers, and they made speeches in the street. Were their rights violated?
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Replying to @noUpside @benedictevans
I’d say yes. There is a genuine free-speech question here. It’s also true that everyone can’t have the same level of amplification.
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Replying to @zeynep @benedictevans
I believe that’s true if the limitation was because of their idea. But the limiting factors in the old mediums included space and time. I have a hard time seeing that practical limitation as a denial of rights.
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Replying to @noUpside @benedictevans
Look how well deplatforming from just three—Facebook, YouTube, Twitter—works. It’s one thing to believe that the society may well be better off without A Jones in the public sphere, another to realize that’s an immense power being exercised mostly arbitrarily.
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Not that the old model was perfect, but we worked on it to make it less worse. And since we are never going back, we have to figure this one out. I would say being cut off from Facebook is a genuine free speech issue, and Facebook is right that this shouldn’t be just up to them.
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I believe access to audiences is a free speech issue—it’s always been. Free speech has never been only about the right to mumble to yourself. It’s certainly different now in many ways, but the audience question has never been separate from free-speech since we had mass media.
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We keep straying from the point that social media platforms are designed to amplify, target, and inject PAID SPEECH in powerful ways that are dramatically and qualitatively different than other content.
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This is my piece from years ago. There are many issues on the table. Getting cut off is one of them, which is what I said in this thread. It’s not as simple as “go elsewhere then.”https://www.wired.com/story/free-speech-issue-tech-turmoil-new-censorship/ …
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Yep, I remember this piece and I think it does a good job at setting the tech in a social and political context. It feels like we are all incidental sharecroppers in the dopamine plantations.
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